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Prank 'Give me a raise!' email nearly lands sysadmin with dismissal

DJO Silver badge

Business as usual

Spoofing the from address in an email is not exactly tricky, in fact it's so easy I doubt it's really a "security hole", any SMTP client can (and by design, must be able to) do it although the ability might not be exposed.

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